22 June 2018 – Nine years after the Salt Water Grille restaurant exited from the Chowpatty beach front in South Mumbai, the Bombay High Court on Thursday cleared the decks for action to be taken against persons responsible for the…
6 October 2014 – Slum rehabilitation projects in coastal zones in Mumbai, the country’s prime real estate market, are on the brink of becoming fully private. This change would replace the current requirement of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models, where government…
22 June 2018 – The Bombay High Court on Thursday also directed the BMC and Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) to conduct an inquiry against all the public servants who allowed the construction of a hotel, owned by Bollywood…
11 September 2023 – The Carriage By Air Act, drafted in line with the Montreal Convention, stipulates, “The airline is liable for damage sustained by a passenger if the accident causing the damage occurred on board the aircraft or during…
4 March 2017 – Stressing that “unauthorized tree cutting as well as hill cutting is an offense to the environment,” the National Green Tribunal’s Pune bench has directed Mumbai-based Vikas Developers not to illegally cut trees on a hilly plot…
18 January 2018 – Could the fatalities in Monday’s fire have been prevented? Nine years after the Maharashtra government proposed special fire safety rules for buildings, the law is yet to be enacted. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by…
14 July 2018 – No sooner had the Maharashtra government agreed to allow outside food inside multiplexes and regulate the prices of food and beverages sold inside multiplexes and theatres, than DNA spoke to Advocate Aditya Pratap, who had moved…
20 April 2024 – The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to respond to allegations of police inaction in investigating a prostitution racket operating in Lokhandwala. The court instructed the Advocate-General to appear before it on Thursday…
28 July 2018 – Renowned actor Zayed Khan has pledged to support Dadabhai Bilhore, who fills potholes in Mumbai as a tribute to his son, who tragically died in a pothole-related accident. This commitment was made during a seminar organized…
21 September 2016 – In a relief to environmental activists, the Bombay High Court refused to interfere with an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune, which is hearing complaints against two city-based developers for allegedly flouting green…